Witches and wicked bodies British Museum

I went to the prints and drawing gallery at the British museum, where there was lots of different images on display, where a lot of them were about witches and demons. I enjoyed the exhibit because I like a lot of the prints, where I took photos of the one's I liked and have put them on the blog. I like the prints and drawings below because I like the creatures in them and the way there so detailed, where a lot of the prints where made in the period between the 16th and 18th century. 

The Magic Lantern  

This engraving was made by Jean Ouvrier after Johann Eleazar Schenau in between 1765-1767.

This print shows a temporary night-time booth for housing the spectacle of a witch being led away in chains. Schenau was a Saxon who moved to Paris in 1756 and produced genre scenes of French life and court portraits.   

Saul and the Witch of Endor

This etching was produced by Andrew Lawrence after Salvator Rosa in 1740 the white-clocked figure of the prophet Samuel, has been summoned by the terrifying witch of Endor, with her hair on end and surrounded by demons. The kneeling Saul learns of his impending defeat and death in battle.

The Witch

The Mezzotint produced by Richard Earlom after David Teniers in 1786 the witch with her upraised sword and stolen loot in basket and apron is Mad Med a Bruegelian hag so avaricious that she would even rob from hell. Hades is indicated here by the triple headed Cerebus at the mouth of a gloomy cave and the cowering demons. 

The Temptation of ST Anthony

This etching was created by Jacques Callot in 1635. This print is seen as the most spectacular prints of the seventeenth century. An overarching dragon in the sky vomits flying demons, over a vast warring landscape of sea, mountain and plains filled with smoke and mad military inventions. The cowering saint is hard to detect because he is surrounded by diabolic creatures.

 

The witchand the mandrake

 This soft ground etching producted by Henry Fuseli in 1812 is based on a passage from Ben Johson, s Masque of Queens The Mandrake wears a veil and looks up balefully at the bare-breasted witch with Muscular arms who is stroking it lewdly.

 

These are two different drawings I did of sections of some of the prints like the first drawing is of the witch in the 3rd print above, where I tried to draw the figure in good detail from the sword to her cloths. I choose to draw the witch because I believed it would be interesting to draw. 

 

 

This is the second drawing I did of a section from the first print of the lady and little girl again I intended to draw both figures very accurately. I choose to draw that section of the print because I want to see if I could transfer the expressions on both their faces to my drawing and see if I could draw their positions accurately. 

manifesto

I am an artist who likes to draw taking my time with shape and detail, where I transfer my drawings to other mediums like Photoshop, print making or even 3D work based around my drawings, where I have used such materials like clay. The main materials I use are pen and pencil to create my drawings, where I believe I am good at drawing objects in front of me like bottles and paint brushes or I would find in image on the internet, where most of the drawings I did for my foundation course came from, like I would find an image of a football club logo and draw the image by hand.

With my drawings instead of what a lot of illustrators would do is to create 2D pieces of work from there drawings like paintings, I tent to create 3D pieces of work based around my drawings like I would print of my drawings once I transferred them to Photoshop and added colour to them and then stick them around plastic cup, bottles and ceramic mugs.

As an artist I am open to different ways of working, if it’s creating sculptures like book sculptures, taking photos, drawing, creating lino and etching prints and working on Photoshop, most of the pieces of work I have created have resulted in one simple drawing like a flower drawing and then the work would come to life.

I am open to freed back from my tutors and listing to their advice about what I can do during a project, to improve on my ideas and different techniques and processes I can explore, to help improve my work and advance my thinking on a project on how to take it further and if I should use on of the techniques or processes to create finished pieces of work.

My work does include colour some of the time, if I am working on Photoshop or creating etchings or book sculptures, but I don’t add much colour to my drawings themselves, because I prefer to do the colouring throw other mediums like Photoshop.

With my artwork I am my own biggest critic, where I expect my work to keep on improving and to be good drawings no matter what I choose to draw and if I feel it’s not up to my standard I don’t like it, unless I can fix my drawings by going over the drawing in a different medium like pen to make the drawing clearer or transfer it to Photoshop and have a play around with the filters and colours to see if I can created a good image from the drawing.

One of my main weaknesses as an artist is I struggle to draw moving objects and painting because I like to draw objects and people if needed standing still so I can make more detailed drawings, with painting I prefer to colour my drawings throw other sources like Photoshop or colouring pens or pencils. I feel the main area in which I have to improve on is drawing people and being more accurate in some areas of my drawings.        

 

 

 

Pangram drawings

 

This is a pangram drawing, I did from a sentence which includes every letter of the alphabet.

 

This pangram is the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, where I did two different drawings in pen and pencil

 

national portrait CIA imperial war museum visits

  

Here are photos and drawings I've taken and draw of work on display in imperial war museum portrait gallery and CIA gallery, where I did 20 min sketches in pencil and pen of different sections within the work like the little dead boy on the floor and of some of the portraits in the portrait gallery.

The photos below are of some of the art work in all three galleries, which I liked for different reasons, where I liked the detail of the work, the colours used and accuracy of some of the work.

  

 

 

This is a series of drawings I've done of different pieces of art work from the galleries, where for some of them I drew small sections from some of the work like the two dead people on the floor from two of the images on display at the imperial war museum.   

 

At the imperial war museum I did like the work on display because of the amount of detail involved in some of the prints and drawings and I also like the darkest feel towards the work on displayed from, where it symbolises dark times of history.